Thursday, January 21, 2016
Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos
The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than “reshaping the world” — and the gathering of global power players still lends itself to high-minded ideals.
The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at the dinner table.
The century-old foundation, which has already taken on challenges like making cities more “resilient” to the challenges of the 21st century, has estimated that food waste represents a $1 trillion drain on the global economy, stretching from farmers in developing countries to multinational corporations.
And that amount of wasted food, the foundation believes, could feed more than 1.5 billion people. . .